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Topic: Cupid's Automated Rocket Bots! (Read 764 times)

heya folks, this one still needs some polishing , but its good enough that I feel I can share it without shame!

this here, is the ABRT , or the automated Ballistic Rocket Turret.

Parts! : Pressurelines Fatalistic Calculator bot, Owls camera system for locking targets (from the aa missle) , and Anannas' Clock to keep the timing delay, and soon it will be mounted on one of Marvins combat bots , as they normally have really good terrain avoidance.

Wow, these rockets fly much more precisely than I expected. With that much speed, do they work correctly with heavy bots at low FPS?Since rockets are limited, turret needs a hook to prevent it from trying to shoot through walls.

Wow, these rockets fly much more precisely than I expected. With that much speed, do they work correctly with heavy bots at low FPS?Since rockets are limited, turret needs a hook to prevent it from trying to shoot through walls.

Perhaps you could add multiple grenades with a dispersal mechanism to get an even bigger area of effect.

Adding weight to the projectile adds to the inaccuracy. I already have it wait three secounds apon finding a target so it can have time to smooth out the targeting wobble.

i could in theory simply make it wider with the rockets forming a line for a shotgun spread.... Hmmm .. something to look at down the road for sure! but in the meanwhile Im trying to make a small bot for ether the lightweight or mid weight categories

EDIT : holy crap, adding terrain detection and making sure it doesn't fire if terrain is in the way was WAAAAAY simpler then I thought it would be! I cant believe I didn't add it before I uploaded the bot!